On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, the nation faces heightened racial tensions as demonstrators across the United States make their voices heard following the police-involved death of George Floyd. The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll has brand new numbers out on how Americans perceive the protests, how local police officers are […] Read more »
Two-thirds of black Americans don’t trust the police to treat them equally. Most white Americans do.
Nearly half of black Americans have very little or no confidence that police officers in their community treat people with different skin colors the same, according to the latest PBS NewsHour-NPR-Marist poll. But overall, only 18 percent of Americans take that view — an illustration in itself that people of […] Read more »
Trump’s Approval Slips Where He Can’t Afford to Lose It: Among Evangelicals
President Trump needs every vote he got from white evangelicals in 2016 — and then some. Hoisting a Bible in the air may not be enough. Unnerved by his slipping poll numbers and his failure to take command of the moral and public health crises straining the country, religious conservatives […] Read more »
Americans’ views shift on racial discrimination
As thousands protest, their message is getting across. Comparing views at this moment to decades of CBS News polling, today we see more people — both white and black — saying racial discrimination affects both treatment by police and chances of getting ahead. And a declining number see progress in […] Read more »
Incumbents usually are penalized in times of unrest
… The truth is that we really don’t know how recent events will alter the contours of this year’s presidential race between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. History merely provides a road map with a number of different paths of how the public will react. … […] Read more »
The George Floyd Election
The nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd will test two competing notions of how voters respond to crises that provoke both anger and grief. Could the demonstrations that have devolved into mayhem, looting and assault lead to victory for President Trump? Will they empower Republicans in the way […] Read more »